Marc-Henri Sandoz
Paradoxes
La vie est faite de mille expériences et émotions contradictoires, toutes méritent d’être embrassées et recèlent de l'énergie vitale
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Marc-Henri Sandoz
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
Rebirth and recreation (reconceiving trauma, last part)
August 18, 2019, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, last days of a memorable trip. How could I have imagined, 15 months ago when I woke up without a...
Marc-Henri Sandoz
- Apr 18, 2021
- 4 min
Trauma as revelation (reconceiving trauma, part 7)
Trauma may bring with it a kind of x-ray vision through the surface of things. Trauma is a tragic reality, without nothing glamorous,...
Marc-Henri Sandoz
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
Call to the community (reconceiving trauma, part 6)
Soon after hearing my diagnostic, I strongly realized I needed moral support like never in my life. I was longing for a family showing me...
Marc-Henri Sandoz
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
Call to the Real (reconceiving trauma, part 5)
Some months ago, before to discover I had a bone cancer and to face my amputation, I was living in what I know now as an illusion. I was...
Marc-Henri Sandoz
- Apr 18, 2021
- 3 min
Through the underwold and back (reconceiving trauma part 3-4: rite of passage - initiation)
I will remember all my life the moment where I entered into the surgery room, a few minutes before the beginning of my amputation. I've...
Marc-Henri Sandoz
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
Reconceiving trauma, part 2: portal to the liminal
Passing through cancer and leg amputation, it didn't take long for me to realize that I was entering into a very strange space. No...
Marc-Henri Sandoz
- Apr 18, 2021
- 3 min
My new teacher
Let me introduce you to my new teacher: my prosthesis, spending hours with me each day and constantly making me discover some precious...
Marc-Henri Sandoz
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
Reconceiving trauma, part 1: universal transformational force
Thirteen days after my amputation, just back home, I found this image on a site by a guy called Edward Tick who works in US with war...
Marc-Henri Sandoz
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
Strange lands to explore
Amputation, fear of the recurrence of cancer that has been removed, daily frustrations, pains, and tensions, the look of pity of the...
Marc-Henri Sandoz
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min
My beautiful flamingo
I’ve never been specially fond of flamingos… until recently. Soon after my amputation, a friend of mine was walking in a park in Geneva....
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